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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-03-12/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
DESCRIPTION:A series of readings to commemorate\, celebrate\, and learn from the ecological/Marxist writings of Mike Davis (1946-2022). Davis’s works spanned urban studies to history\, geography to political science\, and more. They have become crucial reference points for the production of new knowledge by generations of scholars\, artists\, and activists. During 10 weekly sessions we will read and discuss key chapters from five of Mike Davis’s books: Planet of Slums\, Dead Cities\, Ecology of Fear\, Late Victorian Holocausts\, and Old Gods\, New Enigmas. \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-mike-davis/2023-03-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Asia,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Globalization,Marx,Marxisms,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Precarity,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230318T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230318T160000
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-03-18/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History
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SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Part II\, Surveys From Exile
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. That class has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings\, three volumes in one\, recently published by Verso. \nThis group began in fall 2022 and completed part 1 of the text\, covering the Communist Manifesto and Marx’s commentary on the 1848 revolutions in Europe as they unfolded. In this part 2\, we will be reading the “Surveys From Exile” section\, which begins with “The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850” and takes us through Marx’s articles on the Civil War in the United States. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-part-ii-surveys-from-exile/2023-03-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Crisis,Emancipation,Engels,England,France,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Socialism,State Formation,US History,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230319T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230319T153000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-03-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230322T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230322T183000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
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SUMMARY:Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
DESCRIPTION:A series of readings to commemorate\, celebrate\, and learn from the ecological/Marxist writings of Mike Davis (1946-2022). Davis’s works spanned urban studies to history\, geography to political science\, and more. They have become crucial reference points for the production of new knowledge by generations of scholars\, artists\, and activists. During 10 weekly sessions we will read and discuss key chapters from five of Mike Davis’s books: Planet of Slums\, Dead Cities\, Ecology of Fear\, Late Victorian Holocausts\, and Old Gods\, New Enigmas. \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-mike-davis/2023-03-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Asia,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Globalization,Marx,Marxisms,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Precarity,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Utopia and Modernity in China: Contradictions in Transition
DESCRIPTION:A video of this March 22\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\nThe success of China’s industrial/technical revolution since the 1980s has been international market-driven and led by private capital. But this capitalist “utopia” sits uneasily with both traditional Chinese values and the socialism that has been the foundation of the People’s Republic since the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949. Utopia and Modernity in China\, edited by David Margolies and Qing Cao\, examines the contradictions inherent in China’s attempt to achieve “socialism with Chinese characteristics” by promoting home-grown capitalism. The book attempts to deconstruct the realities of this system in practice\, focusing on the internal tensions between traditional Chinese values\, neoliberal capitalism\, and the CCP’s vision of a transition to socialism in the 21st century. It offers an unusual insight into the complex cultural forces that are rapidly reshaping both China and world capitalism.\nBook available from the publisher\, Pluto Press. \nDavid Margolies is Emeritus Professor of English at Goldsmiths\, University of London. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Irrational Endings: The Problem Plays\, and edited Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher Caudwell. \nQing Cao is Associate Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham. He is the author of China under Western Gaze\, and co-editor of Discourse\, Politics and Media in Contemporary China and Brand China in the Media. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/china-utopia-modernity/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:China,Chinese Revolution,Classes/Events,History,Literature,Modernity,Political Economy,Revolutions,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,State Formation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230325T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230325T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-03-25/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230326T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230326T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20221220T194754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T234954Z
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SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Part II\, Surveys From Exile
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. That class has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings\, three volumes in one\, recently published by Verso. \nThis group began in fall 2022 and completed part 1 of the text\, covering the Communist Manifesto and Marx’s commentary on the 1848 revolutions in Europe as they unfolded. In this part 2\, we will be reading the “Surveys From Exile” section\, which begins with “The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850” and takes us through Marx’s articles on the Civil War in the United States. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-part-ii-surveys-from-exile/2023-03-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Crisis,Emancipation,Engels,England,France,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Socialism,State Formation,US History,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230326T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230326T153000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T182706Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-03-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T210000
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SUMMARY:Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
DESCRIPTION:I speak from the deep end of night.\nOf end of darkness I speak.\nI speak of deep night ending.\n – From “The Gift” by Forugh Farrokhzad\nThe spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran. We have compiled a reading list from an essay by Niloufar Talebi\, “100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction\,” published on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. As we read\, one question we will keep in mind is that posed by Talebi: How does the publishing market limit Americans’ understanding of Iranian efforts? \nOver eight weeks we will read novels set in the period since the 1979 revolution. More information… \nEveryone is welcome!
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/iran-awakening-ii/2023-03-30/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Gender,Literature,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Poetry,Radical Literature,Repression,Revolutions,Social Reproduction,War Fiction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230401T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230401T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-04-01/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230402T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230402T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20221220T194754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T234954Z
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SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Part II\, Surveys From Exile
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. That class has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings\, three volumes in one\, recently published by Verso. \nThis group began in fall 2022 and completed part 1 of the text\, covering the Communist Manifesto and Marx’s commentary on the 1848 revolutions in Europe as they unfolded. In this part 2\, we will be reading the “Surveys From Exile” section\, which begins with “The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850” and takes us through Marx’s articles on the Civil War in the United States. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-part-ii-surveys-from-exile/2023-04-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Crisis,Emancipation,Engels,England,France,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Socialism,State Formation,US History,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230402T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230402T153000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20221209T231124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T182706Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-04-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20230314T135857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T141634Z
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SUMMARY:Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
DESCRIPTION:I speak from the deep end of night.\nOf end of darkness I speak.\nI speak of deep night ending.\n – From “The Gift” by Forugh Farrokhzad\nThe spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran. We have compiled a reading list from an essay by Niloufar Talebi\, “100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction\,” published on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. As we read\, one question we will keep in mind is that posed by Talebi: How does the publishing market limit Americans’ understanding of Iranian efforts? \nOver eight weeks we will read novels set in the period since the 1979 revolution. More information… \nEveryone is welcome!
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/iran-awakening-ii/2023-04-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Gender,Literature,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Poetry,Radical Literature,Repression,Revolutions,Social Reproduction,War Fiction,Women
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230408T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230408T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20230313T162134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230501T151450Z
UID:10006532-1680958800-1680966000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Paris Commune: A New History
DESCRIPTION:A video of this March 13\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nCarolyn J. Eichner and Mitch Abidor discuss Eichner’s new book\, The Paris Commune: A Brief History. Her compelling account “makes a complicated event understandable and vivid. Eichner’s rich portraits bring to life the freedom and empowerment the Communards experienced\, juxtaposed with the bloody repression of its final days.” (Sarah Fishman\, author of From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution: Gender and Family Life in Postwar France) \nAt dawn on March 18\, 1871\, Parisian women stepped between cannons and French soldiers\, using their bodies to block the army from taking the artillery from their working-class neighborhood. When ordered to fire\, the troops refused and instead turned and arrested their leaders. Thus began the Paris Commune\, a 72-day conflict that ended with the ferocious slaughter of communards by French troops. The Commune stands as a critical and pivotal moment in nineteenth-century history\, as the linchpin between revolutionary pasts and futures\, and as a crucible allowing glimpses of alternate possibilities. Upending hierarchies of class\, religion\, and gender\, the Commune emerged as a touchstone for the subsequent century-and-a-half of revolutionary and radical social movements. \nCarolyn J. Eichner teaches in the Departments of History and Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin\, Milwaukee. Her books include Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune and Feminism’s Empire. \nMitch Abidor is the editor and translator of Voices of the Paris Commune and Communards. A contributing writer for Jewish Currents\, his articles have also appeared in the New York Times\, the New York Review of Books\, Dissent\, and many other publications. \n  \nThe Paris Commune: A Brief History is available from Rutgers University Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-paris-commune-a-new-history/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,communism,France,French Revolution,History,Modernity,Repression,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Women,Working Class History
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230408T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230408T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20230203T142617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T142739Z
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-04-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20230314T135857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T141634Z
UID:10006547-1681412400-1681419600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
DESCRIPTION:I speak from the deep end of night.\nOf end of darkness I speak.\nI speak of deep night ending.\n – From “The Gift” by Forugh Farrokhzad\nThe spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran. We have compiled a reading list from an essay by Niloufar Talebi\, “100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction\,” published on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. As we read\, one question we will keep in mind is that posed by Talebi: How does the publishing market limit Americans’ understanding of Iranian efforts? \nOver eight weeks we will read novels set in the period since the 1979 revolution. More information… \nEveryone is welcome!
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/iran-awakening-ii/2023-04-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Gender,Literature,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Poetry,Radical Literature,Repression,Revolutions,Social Reproduction,War Fiction,Women
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230415T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230415T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20230203T142617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T142739Z
UID:10007285-1681567200-1681574400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-04-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230416T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230416T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20221220T194754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T234954Z
UID:10007276-1681642800-1681650000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Part II\, Surveys From Exile
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. That class has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings\, three volumes in one\, recently published by Verso. \nThis group began in fall 2022 and completed part 1 of the text\, covering the Communist Manifesto and Marx’s commentary on the 1848 revolutions in Europe as they unfolded. In this part 2\, we will be reading the “Surveys From Exile” section\, which begins with “The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850” and takes us through Marx’s articles on the Civil War in the United States. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-part-ii-surveys-from-exile/2023-04-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Crisis,Emancipation,Engels,England,France,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Socialism,State Formation,US History,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T153000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20230328T143723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T143825Z
UID:10006572-1681651800-1681659000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-04-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230419T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230419T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20230124T162335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T200216Z
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SUMMARY:The New Power Elite: C. Wright Mills Revisited
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED – new date to be announced\nIn 1956\, sociologist C. Wright Mills published The Power Elite\, a study that challenged conventional postwar assumptions that the United States was a society of democracy and upward mobility. Mills analyzed how power and social status in the 1950s had become concentrated in an immense corporate-government power complex that overrode the country’s apparently democratic and egalitarian institutions. Mills feared that\, if not constrained\, concentration and centralization of power at the top of modern society would result in a revival of the violent capitalist authoritarianism or fascism that marked the 1920s and 30s. The Power Elite had a profound influence on the rise of the New Left and contributed to the revival of Marxism in the 1960s (although Mills himself was not a Marxist). \nIn The New Power Elite\, Heather Gautney offers us a contemporary companion to Mills’s work through a fresh critique for the new millennium. She takes up the problems that Mills addressed and echoes his outrage over the injustices and ruin brought by today’s elites. She grounds her analysis more in political economy than in institutional authority as Mills did. Gautney also accounts for changes in global capitalism over the last forty years\, arguing that neoliberalism and the centering of the market in political and social life has ushered in ever more extreme forms of violence and exploitation and a drift toward authoritarianism. \nHeather Gautney\, Associate Professor of Sociology at Fordham University\, has authored numerous books and articles on social inequality\, U.S. politics\, labor\, and social movements\, and opinion essays for major news outlets. She has served as a senior policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders. \n(This event was originally scheduled for Wednesday\, April 19.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/new-power-elite/
LOCATION:POSTPONED – to be rescheduled
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Financialization,Fordism,Globalization,Hegemony,History,Late Capital and Fascism,Modernity,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Economy,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,State Formation,US History
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20230314T135857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T141634Z
UID:10006548-1682017200-1682024400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
DESCRIPTION:I speak from the deep end of night.\nOf end of darkness I speak.\nI speak of deep night ending.\n – From “The Gift” by Forugh Farrokhzad\nThe spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran. We have compiled a reading list from an essay by Niloufar Talebi\, “100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction\,” published on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. As we read\, one question we will keep in mind is that posed by Talebi: How does the publishing market limit Americans’ understanding of Iranian efforts? \nOver eight weeks we will read novels set in the period since the 1979 revolution. More information… \nEveryone is welcome!
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/iran-awakening-ii/2023-04-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Gender,Literature,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Poetry,Radical Literature,Repression,Revolutions,Social Reproduction,War Fiction,Women
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230422T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230422T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20230203T142617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T142739Z
UID:10007286-1682172000-1682179200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-04-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230423T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230423T153000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20230328T143723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T143825Z
UID:10006573-1682256600-1682263800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-04-23/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124915
CREATED:20230405T143507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230405T143507Z
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SUMMARY:Arise! The Mexican Revolution's Global Impact
DESCRIPTION:With Author Christina Heatherton\nThe Mexican Revolution was a global event that catalyzed international radicals in unexpected sites and struggles. Christina Heatherton’s book Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution reveals how activists around the world found inspiration and solidarity in revolutionary Mexico. Heatherton traces the paths of Black American artist Elizabeth Catlett\, Indian anti-colonial activist M.N. Roy\, Mexican revolutionary leader Ricardo Flores Magón\, Okinawan migrant organizer Paul Shinsei Kōchi\, Soviet feminist Alexandra Kollontai\, and other key figures. From art collectives and farm worker strikes to prison “universities\,” Arise! reconstructs how radical organizers found new ways to fight global capitalism and forge an anti-racist internationalism from below. \nChristina Heatherton is the Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights at Trinity College. With Jordan T. Camp she edited Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter and Freedom Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in LA and Beyond. She currently codirects the Trinity Social Justice Initiative and is co-host and co-producer of the SJI’s podcast Conjuncture. \nArise! is available from the publisher\, University of California Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/arise-mexican-revolution/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-capitalist art,Anti-capitalist Literature,Anti-colonialism,Art and politics,Bolshevism,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Cultural Resistance,Globalization,History,Indigenous Peoples,Insurgency,Labor History,Latin America,Mexican Revolution,Modernity,Revolutions,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Women,Working Class History
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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SUMMARY:Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
DESCRIPTION:I speak from the deep end of night.\nOf end of darkness I speak.\nI speak of deep night ending.\n – From “The Gift” by Forugh Farrokhzad\nThe spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran. We have compiled a reading list from an essay by Niloufar Talebi\, “100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction\,” published on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. As we read\, one question we will keep in mind is that posed by Talebi: How does the publishing market limit Americans’ understanding of Iranian efforts? \nOver eight weeks we will read novels set in the period since the 1979 revolution. More information… \nEveryone is welcome!
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/iran-awakening-ii/2023-04-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Gender,Literature,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Poetry,Radical Literature,Repression,Revolutions,Social Reproduction,War Fiction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230429T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230429T160000
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-04-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230430T153000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-04-30/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230504T210000
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SUMMARY:Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
DESCRIPTION:I speak from the deep end of night.\nOf end of darkness I speak.\nI speak of deep night ending.\n – From “The Gift” by Forugh Farrokhzad\nThe spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran. We have compiled a reading list from an essay by Niloufar Talebi\, “100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction\,” published on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. As we read\, one question we will keep in mind is that posed by Talebi: How does the publishing market limit Americans’ understanding of Iranian efforts? \nOver eight weeks we will read novels set in the period since the 1979 revolution. More information… \nEveryone is welcome!
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/iran-awakening-ii/2023-05-04/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Gender,Literature,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Poetry,Radical Literature,Repression,Revolutions,Social Reproduction,War Fiction,Women
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